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Murray Wood says signs of spring were all over the place on the weekend, even though the forecast remains wintery for th...
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Mayor says Saskatoon gathering bylaw could be adopted within days
Saskatchewan's largest city is done waiting for the province to help curb the spread of COVID-19. On Monday, city council voted 8-3 in favour of drafting a bylaw to limit private gatherings in the cit...
Oct 26, 2021 Saskatoon Mayor Charlie Clark. (650 CKOM file photo)
COVID rapid testing kits now available across northern Sask.
By Jaryn Vecchio Rapid testing kits for COVID-19 are finally available for the public across northern Saskatchewan. The provincial government previously stated it would be handing out more than 1.3 mi...
Oct 26, 2021
Saskatoon city council votes to create bylaw limiting gathering sizes
Restrictions on how many people you can have in your home or at your event are returning to one Saskatchewan city. On Monday, Saskatoon city council voted 8-3 in favour of creating a bylaw to limit ga...
Oct 25, 2021
Latest COVID update Oct. 25: 170 new cases, no new deaths
For the first time in 51 days, Saskatchewan didn't report a death due to COVID-19 on Monday. In its daily COVID update, the Ministry of Health said there weren't any COVID-related fatalities to announ...
Oct 25, 2021 (Sheena Roszell/650 CKOM file photo)
SaskTel Centre defends holding first major concert in Sask. during pandemic
More than 13,000 people sang along with Eric Church at SaskTel Centre on Saturday and the venue's executive director is singing the praises of his 800 staff members who had the challenge of hosting th...
Oct 25, 2021 The Eric Church concert at SaskTel Centre on Oct. 23, 2021. (Submitted)
Woman charged with second-degree murder in toddler's death in 2020
A 37-year-old woman has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with the death of a two-year-old boy in Saskatoon in July of 2020. Saskatoon police said Monday that officers responded Jul...
Oct 25, 2021 (650 CKOM file photo)
1 dead after apartment fire in Saskatoon
A fire investigator says improper disposal of smoking material caused a fire Monday morning near St. Paul's Hospital. The Saskatoon Fire Department (SFD) was called at 2:34 a.m. to an apartment buildi...
Oct 25, 2021 An apartment block on Avenue P South in Saskatoon on Oct. 25, 2021. (Libby Giesbrecht/650 CKOM)
Report on French Catholic Church abuse reminding local dioceses of work to be done in Sask.
Earlier this month, a report revealed more than 200,000 children have been victims of abuse at the hands of the French Catholic Church. But local dioceses are saying the legacy of abuse exists in Sask...
Oct 25, 2021 Pamela Walsh and Archbishop Donald Bolen at a recent presentation on responding to clergy sexual abuse. (Archdiocese of Regina/Submitted)
Incoming vaccinations will 'definitely' bring child case rates down
Through the pandemic, about a third of cases in Saskatchewan have been in kids and teens, so as cases have gone up in Saskatchewan the last few months, so have cases in kids. However, those high numbe...
Oct 25, 2021
Latest COVID update Oct. 24: Active cases and hospitalizations continue to drop
Many key COVID indicators continued to move in the right direction Sunday. In its daily update, the province reported that the active case load had dropped below 3,000. There were 236 new infections a...
Oct 24, 2021
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